Including the U.S. Air Force considering a major overhaul to its structure.
| Aerospace Digest | | Most viewed civil, military and space stories from December 2023 |
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| USAF Considering Overhaul, Doing Away With Major Commands | | Brian Everstine | | The U.S. Air Force is considering a major overhaul to its structure and doing away with its major command model as part of a review led by service Secretary Frank Kendall focusing on the service’s ability to fight a major conflict after decades of lower-intensity fights. |
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| FAA Starts 737NG Nacelle Retrofit Mandate Process | | Sean Broderick | | The FAA has kicked off the process that will mandate nacelle design changes on the Boeing 737 Next Generation (NG) fleet that were prompted by a fatal accident and a related NTSB recommendation and are expected to be mandated globally. |
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| Aviation Week 2023 Photo Contest Winning Photos | | The science and technology behind aviation have shrunk the world. Trips that once took months or even years are now measured in hours. The Aviation Week Photo Contest brings this point home in 2023 with photos from all seven continents, a first in the competition’s more than 30 years. Entries this year came from 14 countries and 28 U.S. states. |
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| What Stephanie Pope’s COO Appointment Means For Boeing | | Michael Bruno | | The last time Boeing named a chief operating officer was in December 2013, when then-CEO Jim McNerney elevated then-defense chief Dennis Muilenburg to run the sprawling aerospace and defense giant’s operations. |
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| France Funds Research Into Conventional A320neo Successor | | Jens Flottau, Thierry Dubois | | In June 2023, Airbus Group CEO Guillaume Faury opened a second avenue for Airbus. He told Aviation Week that work had begun on a more conventional successor for the A320-neo family, a project known internally as eAction. |
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| Saudi Arabia’s Aviation Vision Puts Sector Under Intense Pressure | | Jens Flottau | | At the biannual Dubai Airshow, the first thing visitors exiting the main exhibition hall see is an Emirates Airbus A380 alongside a Boeing 777-300ER in the same livery—and more recently a Boeing 777-9 prototype in Boeing livery, too, as Emirates is by far the largest customer for the new widebody. |
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